Stocking.



R. s. I B. H. PHILLIPS.'L

STOGKING.

APPLICATION FILED Emmi. 1913.

Patented Jan'. 5, 1915.

inve/nimm m w i ROBERT S. PHILLIPS AND BENJAMIN-H. PHILLIPS, F ilR-IVERSIDE, NEW JERSEY.

STOCJKING.

Application nled Februar-57.6, 1913.-

sey, have invented certain new and useful Viumprovements in Stockings, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in stockings and the like, and one object thereof is to so form the knee portion thereof that it will conform to the knee of the wearer.

A further object is toso form a stocking that the courses of stitches over the knee will not be stretched as are the stitches at the back, so that the stocking over the knee will not be put under excessive tension when the knee of the wearer is bent.

A further object is to so form the knee portion that the stocking may be readily knit on substantially any of the automatic knitting machines now used for knitting stockings and the like.

With the foregoing and other objects in view our invention consists in certain constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, the preferred form of which will be r'stdescribed in connection companying drawing and then the invention particularly pointed out in the appended claims. l

Referring to the drawing wherein the same part is designated bythe same reference numeral wherever it occurs: Figure l is a side view of a stocking constructed in accordance with'our invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged diagrammatic view showing how the additional courses are added to the lmee portion of the stocking, and Fig. 3 is a section through the kneeportion showing how the thread that forms the eXtra courses is carried from one extra course to the next.

5 designates the portion of a stocking above the knee portion, 6 the portion thereof below the knee, 7 the portion which extends over the knee, and 8t of the knee, and it is to e erably and as shown the portions 7 andY 8 each extend about half way around vthe knee and join at the seams 9. It is to be understood however that the relationbetween the vparts 7 and I8 and the location of the seams C9 can be varied as desired, provided that the portion 7,A is at least of'sucient length npecilication of Letters Patent.

and width te? at least A and floated e ortion at the back. noted that pref-- 'the specic Patented wlan.. 5, jlwl. Serial lt 'o7t6,517.

substantially cover the knee of the wearer. without departing from our invention'.`

ln describing the manner of knitting our improved stocking we will assume that the stocking is commenced' at the top and nished' at the toe in the usual manner, though l theparticular manner in which it is knit is entlrely immaterial to our invention. ln nittmg the stocking from the top, the knitmanner and the part 5 is formed as in an 'When a preferably just above the knee. course is knit running entirely around the stocking with thethread 10 with which the portion 5 has been knit and then an extra thread 11 is thrown Y in and a course knit across the portion 7 and when it reaches the end of this portion this thread is suppressed acrossl the inside of the stocking while the knitting is continued around with the thread 10 and when the seam 9-is again reached the extra thread l1 is again thrown in and the operation continued until a point below the knee is reached when the extra thread is cut oli' and the stocking furnished in the,` ordinary manner. Then the portions of the thread -11 which had been Heated across are cut 0H. as indicated at the marks 12 and the stocking is complete.

'llt will be observed that by our improvement there are twice as may courses of stitches in the portion 7 as there are in the portion 8, and that therefore when the stock-d Ing is taken at its ends and stretched taut the stitches inthe portion 8 will be drawn out into long narrow loops without however drawing out the stitches in the portion 8, as ilustrated in Fig.

stocking is worn the knee may be bent withtio Whilewelhave described the manufacture of ourvst'ocking by throwing in an extra thread, it is of courseto be understood that the same maybe knit with a-single thread by properly running same result produce as thatjust described.

We realize that considerable variation is ting is begun and carried on in the usual 2, so that 'when-thel the courses and the outputting undue tensionon the mee porpossible in thedetails of construction and.

parts without departing from 'the spirit of our invention, and we therefore do not intend to limit ourselves to form shownv and described.

arrangement of lll@ Having thus described our nventio n what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A stocking formed tions above and below front of the lmee `portion and then floating it across the interior of the stocking while knitting thread and then knitting another a fullr course Awith the regular over the front portion with the extra thread, said regular thread and extra thread altermating with each other.

In testImony whereof we aiix ouI` signa- 15 tures 1n presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT s. PHILLIPS. BENJAMIN II. PHILLIPS.

Witnesses: v

HoRATIo G. YERKES, LEWIS W. HOPPER. 

